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Hello everybody! This will be my first time using Gaia Journals, so I'm still kind of new and unfamiliar with some of the preferences.

Anyways, I love Japanese animation (anime) and Japanese comics (manga). If you are reading this and you're thinking "I hate all this Japanese crap." Then okay, stop reading. I'm not writing this just for you to get angry and post hate comments. Leave now.

To those who also share my interest in anime and manga, keep reading! I'm sure my journal will absolutely amuse you or bore you. You choose.

My journal will deal with different things about anime and manga. I may talk about an anime show or manga series I absolutely love, or one that I may dislike greatly. I may talk about how anime and manga are used now, such a fan fictions and fan art. In this issue, I'll be talking about....how anime has changed my life!

Here's how anime has changed/influenced my life:

-First off, I feel I was born loving anime. Or at least, my mind was influenced by it at a very young age. My earliest memories are of watching Sailor Moon in the afternoons, being only 3 or 4. Watching Card Capor Sakura at my grandma's house on the TV channel WB at the age of 6, 7, or 8. Borrowing random anime shows at Blockbuster that I had no idea what they were called around the same age of CCS.

And all that time, I had no idea that it was "anime". I knew that it was a lot different from the cartoon shows on TV like Tom and Jerry or such, but I never thought that it had it's own catagory. I never knew that it would stand apart from other shows.

-Anime has given me a more imaginative and creative mind.

-I also have to blame anime for giving me a dramatic mind xd .

-Anime has corrupted my mind. Not in a hentai-ish (perverted) way, but with blood and gore. I love writing and imagining horrific, bloody situations that are related to animes called "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni", "Elfen Lied", "Rurouni Kenshin", and that would have to be it. But trust me, I'm not the type to actually want to kill or anything, I'm much more satisfied thinking about it and writing it as fan fictions, NO real life at all.

-I made friends and am more sociable (somewhat) from anime. Many of my classmates knew what anime was, and if I'd never discovered it then I'd be left in the dark.

Well, there's much more, trust me, but I'm much too tired with this topic. I'll make sure to bring part two out when I feel up to it. Or this just might be all my reasons.

Until then, ja ne!